We all know that planning a wedding can be an intense time, and that some brides and grooms take things a little too far when things don't go their way. Having said that, a post recently shared on Reddit might be about a bride taking things too far.
It seems a woman's cousin really, really wants to borrow her wedding dress — but the woman isn't OK with it. Now the bride has kicked the whole family off her wedding list.
The dress was made by the woman's mother-in-law.
The woman begins, "5 years ago I got got married and I had a custom wedding dress made by my MIL. My MIL has since passed in a car accident. It was so unexpected and it broke my husband’s heart. We are saving the wedding dress for my daughter who was named after my MIL."
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The bride really, really wants it.
"My cousin Gigi (no direct blood relationship my MIL) is now wanting to wear my wedding dress," the woman continues. "Her, her mother and my grannie are all on this war path that this is her dream dress and I should let her wear it. It would be a tribute to my MIL (again this is my side of my family and no direct relationship to my MIL)."
But her husband says no.
"Gigi was obsessed with my wedding dress when I had it and she’s has already said she wanted to wear it. Gigi is not my size (much larger boobs and hips) so the dress would have to be majorly altered. My husband said 'no' he wants to have our daughter wear it when she’s grown up and have it altered for her or turned into a veil."
The bride is angry.
"My daughter is under a year and my family said that’s years off and I should let them borrow it now. My cousin has turned petty at my refusal and as disinvited my parents, siblings and their children. She told her that I’m costing her thousands of dollars because she’s had to pay for dress to look like mine. She’s also mad because I won’t lend her my dress to have it copied because I 100% don’t trust her with it."
Her aunt and grandmother are against her, too.
"My auntie and grannie have banned me from their life over this because it’s the one thing my cousin has wanted since she saw me in my wedding dress. I was told if I don’t do this I’m cut off from any events my grannie host and my mom is too because she has raised such a selfish and entitled daughter."
People ... really do not understand the bride.
One commenter said, "She's insisting on borrowing YOUR wedding dress for HER wedding and since you obviously refused–you're saving it for your daughter, but even without a daughter you wouldn't loan a WEDDING DRESS CUSTOM MADE FOR YOURSELF to someone else–she's trying to emotionally blackmail you into giving it to her–where it will have to be remade to fit her–by uninviting your entire family from her wedding. When that didn't work, she, her mother, and your grandmother have all gotten together and uninvited you from all family gatherings forever. Ask them if this seems okay to them and explain that you would never bother them about this but since your cousin, aunt, and grandmother have turned this into a family circus, you though you should ask the family to chime in with their opinions."
They think the cousin seems very entitled.
As another wrote, "i think it’s more about leaving the option out for her to be able to wear it! OP ([the original poster]) said that her cousin wouldn’t be able to fit into the dress and it would have to be beyond altered! (her cousin is big chested i believe OP said) if they go and alter it to basically a new dress OP’s daughter may not even be able to wear it, or what if OP has another child and they would like to wear it to! her cousin sounds really entitled and should have rights to a dress that wasn’t made for her!"
It's possible she doesn't even like the dress in real life.
As a third person pointed out, what if she hates the dress?
"If she doesn’t have the same body as you, it’s not even going to fit the same way on her. She can pretend all she wants that this is her 'dream dress', but it just sounds like she’s being cheap! If you’re feeling generous with your time, send her links to dresses that have a similar style and silhouette so she can actually go try some on instead of begging her cousin for a free dress. She very well may find out that her 'dream dress' doesn’t look the way she envisioned, and maybe you can get her off your back."
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